Thursday, January 19, 2006

Last week, I found a nice package on my work desk, awaiting my arrival. My coworker TT came back from Hawaii and promised me a nice souvenir. She had read my posts on my Hawaii trip and knew exactly what to get me; something edible.

I slowly undressed the package to find Portuguese sausage. I was so stoked haha. In Hawaii, the McDonald’s serve local food including spam/Portuguese with eggs and rice.This meal was actually one of the memorable ones from my trip.

Because the sight of a heavy plate lunch may sometimes be too much for the senses, I decided to do a take on this Hawaiian classic. Using a ring mold in the pan, I fried some rice that I had mixed with Nori Furikake (best stuff on Earth), making a crispy, circular ‘rice cake’. I then topped it with five small slices of the heavenly Portuguese sausage and of course, added a perfectly round egg. Since this meal is usually served with soy sauce, I made a quick soy sauce reduction sauce using soy sauce, water, sugar, sesame oil and corn starch for thickening. Sprinkled a few bits of Nori Furikake for garnish. I think I devoured this in about 2 minutes in under 6 bites like Pac-Man.

its funny you made this because just yesterday i was at surfas torn between getting boudin blanc or hawaiian portugese sausage! i went for the boudin blanc but the portugese one is next on my list. nice layout! i'm not so computer saavy and will be stuck with my template for eternity!

Kirk, REPS is awesome. I'd choose that over any snob meal someday - well maybe toss in a few pieces of foie gras next to the spam and i'll be content haha. A friend of mine said eggs/PS in a sandwich is heavenly.

Yoonyfer, you and I are like addicted to Surfas haha. Even when I don't have anything to buy, I'll just go and browse EVERY aisle. The last time I went, I picked up some plastic squeezy bottles and a ring mold used for this dish haha.